A Little Nature Poem

The rose is red, the violet blue,

     The punkin bloom is yeller;

The golden rod is yeller too,

The pink is sweet, and so be you,

     Skunk cabbage’s a bad smeller.

Aug. 8, 1904

The original, crossed out and replaced:

       A Nature Poem

The rose is red, the violets blue,

     The punkin bloom is yeller;

The pink is sweet, the lilac too,

     Skunk cabbage’s a bad smeller.

July 5, 1904